“传道授业”是教师的职责,不仅如此,教师更应培养学生的思维能力,提高学生的思维水平,进而提高教学质量。笔者结合教学实践,就怎样有效提高初中化学教学质量,谈几点粗浅的看法。一、潜心钻研教材,优化教学思路教学的主要依据是教材,钻研教材是优化教学思路的主要前提。一是要对整个教材的知识体系、编排思路以及各章节之间的联系了然于胸。即熟悉各知识点,掌握每个章节的内容在整个教材知识体系中所处的地位和各知识点之间的联系。二是要对教材进行深入的理解与独到的分析。即透析教材的深度和广度,搞清知识的内涵和外延,还 “Mission education ” is the teacher’s responsibility, not only that, teachers should train students ’thinking ability, improve students’ thinking level, and then improve the quality of teaching. The author combines teaching practice, on how to effectively improve the quality of junior high school chemistry teaching, talk a few superficial opinions. First, painstaking study of teaching materials, teaching ideas to optimize the main basis for teaching materials, study materials is to optimize the teaching of the main premise. First, we must understand the entire textbook knowledge system, layout ideas and the links between the various chapters. That is familiar with the knowledge of each point to master the contents of each chapter in the textbook knowledge system in which the position and the relationship between knowledge points. The second is to conduct in-depth understanding of teaching materials and unique analysis. That is, the depth and breadth of dialysis textbooks to clarify the connotation and extension of knowledge, but also